Open to North American visual artists of Southern Italian descent. (1st, 2nd or 3rd generation). 4 positions have been proposed for a 3-month period in the fall of 2010, to work in a Calabrian village near the Ionian Sea. Studio space, apartment, and some expenses to be provided by a project grant. The kinds of visual artists will vary. Southern Italian Diaspora Returns at Long Last . . . as Artists. It is hypothesized that these southern Italian-descended artists can bring valuable perspective to the racial and cultural diversity that is developing today in southern Italy, with whatever work they choose to do while absorbing this complex and beautiful environment. Their artistic voices would be more likely to bridge cultures than divide them. (continued in prospectus)

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